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Cops in schools too costly: CPS - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter July 3, 2011 9:10PM Since 2009, CPS had been paying the Chicago Police Department $8 million a year to station two officers at roughly 100 high schools for eigh...

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Putting the NEA endorsement of Obama in context

dailykos.com - The NEA Representative Assembly also adopted with almost no opposition and with only minor amendments a resolution very critical of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The text of that resolution a...

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Union Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) Segun Eubanks, the director of teacher quality for the union, said the new policy was intended to guide, not bind, state and local union chapters. It tries to close the disconnect bet...

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Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governance

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceDebate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceJul 4, 2011 1:02pmEmail Print NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once a symbol of political fractiousness, failu...

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Ald. Ed Burke's bodyguards questioned

articles.chicagotribune.com - Finance Committee chairman kept police protection in racially charged eranow critics doubt need in tight budget times (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune)When Ald. Edward Burke arrives at City Hall, it...

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A Failing School? Not to These Students

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) James Eterno, Jamaica’s representative to the teachers’ union, has been portrayed in the news media as a man who cares more about preserving jobs than — as the mayor never tires of sa...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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HUD Announces EHLP Program to Assist Distressed Borrowers

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:32 am, July 4, 2011 Photo Credits: HUD Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in conjunction with NeighborWorks® America, launched the Emergency Home...

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45% of kids sustained thyroid radiation

search.japantimes.co.jp - Around 45 percent of children in Fukushima Prefecture checked by the prefectural and central governments in late March experienced thyroid exposure to radiation, although in all cases in trace amou...

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Chilean Women Rebuild Lives Smashed by Tsunami

womensenews.org - Some give up traditional livelihoods and do something new. Others stay put and rebuild from within devastated towns. Throughout the shoreline communities of southern Chile hardest hit by the 2010 t...

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Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governance

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceDebate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceJul 4, 2011 1:02pmEmail Print NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once a symbol of political fractiousness, failu...

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